First of all, I want to whish you, and your family an healthy and successful 2019. That all of your wishes may come true! Also, this year I would like to start this brand new year with looking back at the year we lived in a couple of days ago. What a year it was!

The year 2018 was
again a very good year for me! A year full of community, good friends and a
lots of fun in the Enterprise Mobility / Enterprise Client Management world and
a major change in the last two months. It was the year of:

In January I wrote
some blogs about the integration between Jamf and Microsoft Intune. Jamf is
currently the leader in the market when it comes to managing Apple macOS
devices. With the integration Jamf customers are able to use Conditional Access
when it comes to allowing or disallowing access to services controlled by Conditional
Access, based on the compliance state calculated and controlled by Microsoft
Intune.

In February the first version
of the Device Enrollment Restrictions, based on groups were rolled out to all
Microsoft Intune tenants. With the Device Enrollment Restrictions you are able
to control for instance if what platforms are allowed to be used to enroll into
Microsoft, if BYOD devices are allowed per platform, and how many devices a
user is allowed to enroll. Read more here.

March:

March is since a
couple of years a month full of NDA, the Global Microsoft MVP Summit took place
in Redmond. A week with the Product Groups of Microsoft Intune and System
Center Configuration Manager, providing feedback and getting information what
it coming in the near future.

On our way to SeattleAwesome bunch of Enterprise Mobility MVP’s

Also, I March I was
allowed to speak at the Microsoft TechSummit 2018 in Amsterdam. The Microsoft
TechSummit was a two-day premier event which is now being replaced by Ignite on
Tour.

On the 19th
of June ExpertsLive Netherlands was again taking place. ExpertsLive is the
biggest IT-Pro Community event in the Netherlands. During this event I was
allowed to co-present 2 sessions, one with Kent Agerlund and one with Kenneth
van Surksum.

July is holiday season,
making plans and prepare the sessions for Techmentor in August. Microsoft
released some new App Protection capabilities, read all about it here.

August:

This August I was invited
to speak at Techmentor for the first time, with four sessions I was allowed to
speak at the Headquarters of Microsoft in Redmond. While attending and
presenting at this conference I was able to meetup with some of the Microsoft Intune
Product Group.

The first of November
I left CTGlobal to start my own company Daalmans Consulting. A huge
step in the unknown but so excited to work with partners and customers
directly.

New logo

The first week on my
own was almost a community week with organizing Lowlands Unite NL, an event with
two tracks and with David James presenting two sessions. But also speaking at
the Lowlands Unite BE edition in Antwerp and presenting at Geekmania in Zurich.

Second month for
Daalmans Consulting and a month where we make community plans for the upcoming year!
The Windows Management User Group Netherlands will be back with some nice
plans! To close of the blog year, I wrote one quick tip when working with Appconfig
and Microsoft Intune.

A big thank you to the
community, to the event organizers who invited me to speak, to all of you; my
visitors and followers and of course my customers for the trust in 2018!

Already looking forward
to rock and meet you in 2019 at one of the many community events!

About Peter Daalmans

Peter is a Principal Consultant, Trainer and Enterprise Mobility (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility Suite) MVP with Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the Enterprise Client Management and Enterprise Mobility. Writing blogs and sharing his knowlegde since 2010 on ConfigMgrBlog.com / PeterDaalmans.com.

Also one of the founders and leads of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands.

Peter tries to speak every year on several events like TechDays Netherlands, ExpertsLive, IT/Dev Connections, BriForum, Midwest Management Summit, TechEd Australia, TechEd New Zealand and in 2017 Peter had the honor to speak at Microsoft Ignite. See more here.

Author of four books about Configurtion Manager and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility +Security